The US Dow Jones stock index has closed at a record high for the 12th day running as Donald Trump promised a "big" infrastructure announcement.It is the longest winning streak for the share index since January 1987.Analysts said Wall Street was buoyed by hopes the US ...

....The disbanding of the councils, whose roles were symbolic, came as the White House is preparing an autumn push for tax reform on Capitol Hill after failing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Tax reform has long been a major priority of the Trump administration and the dissolution of the councils is unlikely to help the White House’s goals of pressuring Congress to pass a comprehensive bill that would lower corporate tax rates. ...

.... This in turn would help alleviate pressure on women to take lengthier breaks or leave their jobs. Research from the Trades Union Congress shows that by 42, mothers who are in full-time work earn 11% less than women without children who work full-time. ...

....In 1975, as EPA officials publicly labelled PCBs “highly toxic” and “a significant hazard to human health and the environment,” Monsanto privately admitted that they did not just affect animals but “can have permanent effects on the human body”. Publicly though, Monsanto downplayed health and environmental hazards in contacts with several public authorities over this period, insisting that they were not “highly toxic” to the EPA, American National Standards Institute and to Congressmen. ...

....The administration’s inability to execute on the economic-policy front is unlikely to change. Congressional Republicans’ attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) have failed, not least because moderate Republicans refused to vote for a bill that would deprive 20 million Americans of their health insurance. ...

....So why has the Dow been doing so well? One factor has been Wall Street’s expectation that Trump will deliver on a package of corporate and personal tax cuts heavily weighted in favour of the already well-off. It might have been thought that the president’s rebuff by Congress over the repeal of Barack Obama’s affordable healthcare legislation would have raised doubts on Wall Street about Trump’s ability to deliver on his fiscal pledges. ...

....Note the use of the word “censor”, which was viewed by 1. 8 billion people in 24 hours, and the link on the “tell Congress” line, which led users directly to emailing their members of Congress. ...

....Government findings showed that more than 70% of goods in a random sample on Taobao were fake. “His repeat performances with Trump and his administration show he is making significant inroads,” says Michael Wessel, head of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a oversight body that reports to Congress. ...

....“The parole would have granted someone entry to the US when they do not have an applicable visa to do so. This was Obama’s attempt to enact some immigration reform when Congress were unable to approve legislation authorising new or reformed visa types. ...